When Badr-1 was launched?

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When Badr-1 was launched? Answer: 1990

Badr-1, launched on July 16, 1990, was Pakistan’s first indigenously developed digital communications satellite. It was sent into low Earth orbit aboard a Chinese Long March 2E rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, making Pakistan the first Muslim country and the second South Asian nation (after India) to launch a satellite into space.